Kaiser Mommy

Choose Joy. Every Time.

On being invisible

There’s a photo that has shaken loose several things in my head. Go look at the photo. Focus on the hawt redhead with the curly hair. You should know that she comes from the family of hawtness. Whatever is in their water, I want some. I looked at that picture and tried to picture myself rockin’ the curly red hair on an ordinary day, and I immediately thought, well no,.. Read More

NaNoWriMonday – 1:9

Beginning Previous There was the sound of a door opening at the back of the house and voices came up the hallway. Happy voices, chattering away. The voices brought lightness with them, they brought a lighter hearted spirit, chasing away the tough conversations of the morning. Leta turned fully to greet the smiling faces that made their way into the kitchen. “Good morning Belle, Good morning mother Ellen.” She stepped.. Read More

Weekly Winners

Week Nine of Lotus?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ weekly winners meme. Click the link to see more participants! A Boy and his Cat – Part Zwei Alex, I miss you! Let me out! Dude, no … I’m am totally underwhelmed with my first time in the grass. Tavish! I miss you! Let me back in!

Showin’ off on Saturday

(Not sure what’s going on? Here’s the links to the two posts about Showin’ off on Saturday) Here we go! My new thing was figuring out how to work Mr. Linky (still sounds dirty), which I did figure it out, and I also figured out it cost money, and my old thing is that I’m a Cheap@$$ and since I wasn’t planning on changing that this week, just post in.. Read More

P0rn at school – bad idea

I occasionally miss my former job. Like days when the Kaiser is still in the process of going down for his second nap of the day when it. is. time. for. bed. oh. mah. gaw. So, now for something completely different. A story from the vault of my teaching days. (Written in present tense, but it happened last year.) I wonder why kids think I’m stupid. Tuesday I had my.. Read More

Mommyhood – New Chapter on Baby Discipline

In Touchpoints, Dr. Brazelton says that when your baby does something, say pulls up on the TV and gets ready to mash the buttons, and then turns around to look at you, that s/he is looking for discipline. “Is this okay, Mommy? Are you going to do anything about it, Mommy?” I have this plant. It’s a peace lily plant. I don’t love it, because it’s a funeral plant. I.. Read More

Mommyhood – New Chapter on Baby Sleep

I’ve had this sneaking suspicion that parents who have kids who sleep easily and well have it easier than parents who have kids who do not. In the aftermath of the 2007 Christmas Chaos, I decided when we got home and Scout went back to work that it was time to get the 8 month old Alex used to napping in his crib. The whole being “on” 24 hours a.. Read More

NaNoWriMonday – 1:8

Beginning Previous “Grandmother,” she began, waiting for Elizabeth to shift her eyes to her, permitting her to continue, “May I look at your Bible?” Elizabeth carefully pushed the book toward Leta’s seat at the table. “Careful you make no messes of it. Wipe that jam off your hands first.” Leta began to argue that her hands were clean, and at Abby’s soft cough, remembered to let it go. She wiped.. Read More

Weekly Winners

Week Eight of Lotus?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ weekly winners meme. Click the link to see more participants! With all the driving and sick and crazy, I don’t have any photos I took to be able to share, but I did get these this week and I thought they were winners, hopefully Lotus won’t kick me out. My grandpa. I think this was taken in 1946 so he would have been 33 years old… Read More

Showin’ off on Saturday – 1

Okay. Here it is. We have 2 pieces of bling – one provided by Three Ring Circus And one provided by Hotfessional. Now, you’d think that the first time I invited everyone over to play together that I’d have it together for everything to work, right? Sigh. I had this grand idea of making a toy for Alex and then showing it off because I’m so cool and thrifty and.. Read More

Haiku Holiday

      one new baby girl two hospitals visited three mamas nursing – four generations five hundred miles to get there six loads of laundry – seven meals in car eight food regurgitations nine sick with the plague – ten body fluids eleven presents unwrapped twelve hundred miles done